Product Description: Telling Our Lives explores how three working-class women—from Jewish, African-American, and Irish-American backgrounds—connect across their differences through storytelling and conversation. Three distinct voices intertwine in this book as the authors, now college professors, discuss family legacies of diaspora and dislocation, analyzing how these have shaped their personal and professional lives...read more

Product Description: This innovative, ethnographic study of a neighborhood beauty salon investigates how customers constitute a lively, affirming community of peers during their weekly visits. Facing the Mirror gives voice to older women, who, in a sexist and ageist society, are frequently devalued and rendered invisible...read more

Product Description: Examines Jewish identity in the affluent and educated community of a liberal reform synagogue. The book explores how one synagoue grapples with the process of identity construction as a social phenomenon, revealing tensions between individualism and corporatism and other opposing factors...read more